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- Title
What you see is what you get: colour in Italian Renaissance.
- Authors
Wharton, Steve
- Abstract
It has long been assumed that the colours used by artists painting on Renaissance pottery only became visible after firing and that the use of the colours was dependent upon an empirical understanding of known results. Based upon recipes derived from Cipriano Piccolpasso's <em>Li tre libri dell'arte del vasaio</em>, this paper demonstrates that although particular materials were used across a range of specialist trades, for example pottery and easel painting, the results were the same in terms of colour effect. Furthermore, the preparation of the pigments, according to Piccolpasso's descriptions, rendered them visible to the pottery painters before they were fired. This discovery furthers our knowledge of how pottery painters worked by placing them within a wider cultural context and shows how they and other craftspeople were able to respond to the demands of fashion -- particularly through the production of istoriato ware -- evidenced by a wide range of Renaissance material cultural objects, not just pottery.
- Subjects
ITALY; ITALIAN pottery; CERAMICS; DECORATIVE arts; HOME furnishings
- Publication
Renaissance Studies, 2005, Vol 19, Issue 5, p592
- ISSN
0269-1213
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1477-4658.2005.00123.x